area · spatial
the extent of space that is surrounded by boundaries
Examples
- The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge spans 19 million acres within Alaska's northern boundary. geography
- The surface of a neutron star compresses a city's mass into a sphere just 20 kilometers wide. astrophysics
- Tokyo Station's platform 1 encloses 340 meters of track between its eastern and western walls. engineering
Emergence
through: the boundaries together surround a piece of space
- enclosed region
- bounded extent
- spatial containment
Chain to foundations
as tree
- areaL5
- spaceL0
- boundaryL2
- extentL3
- surroundedL4
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (8)
Relations
| is-a | extent.spatial | is-a |
| contrasts-with | line.geometric | contrasts-with |